A success timeline featuring the most significant achievements of Sonia Sotomayor.
Sonia Sotomayor is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, she assumed office on August 8, 2009. Sotomayor holds the distinction of being the first Hispanic and only the third woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
In 1976, Sonia Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
In 1979, Sonia Sotomayor was awarded a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
On March 30, 1995, Sotomayor issued a preliminary injunction against Major League Baseball in Silverman v. Major League Baseball Player Relations Committee, Inc., preventing it from unilaterally implementing a new collective bargaining agreement. This ruling effectively ended the 1994 baseball strike.
On October 2, 1998, Sotomayor was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by a 67–29 vote.
In 1999, Sotomayor received an honorary law degree from Lehman College.
In 2001, Sotomayor received honorary law degrees from Princeton University and Brooklyn Law School.
In 2002, Sotomayor was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
In 2003, Sotomayor received an honorary law degree from Pace University School of Law.
In 2006, Sotomayor received an honorary law degree from Hofstra University.
In 2006, Sotomayor was given the Outstanding Latino Professional Award by the Latino/a Law Students Association.
In 2007, Sotomayor received an honorary law degree from Northeastern University School of Law.
In 2008, Esquire magazine included Sotomayor on its list of "The 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century".
On August 8, 2009, Sonia Sotomayor began her service as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first Hispanic justice and third woman to hold the position.
In 2010, Sotomayor received honorary law degrees from Howard University, St. Lawrence University, and Paris Nanterre University.
In 2010, the Bronxdale Houses were renamed in honor of Sonia Sotomayor.
In 2011, the Sonia M. Sotomayor Learning Academies, a public high school complex in Los Angeles, was named after her.
In 2012, Sotomayor received an honorary law degree from New York University.
In 2013, Sotomayor received an honorary law degree from Yale University.
In 2013, Sotomayor won the Woodrow Wilson Award at Princeton University.
In 2013, a painting featuring Sotomayor, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
In 2014, Sotomayor received an honorary law degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.
In May 2015, Sotomayor received the Katharine Hepburn medal from Bryn Mawr College.
In 2019, Sotomayor received an honorary doctorate of human letters from Manhattan University.
In 2019, Sotomayor was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
In 2024, Sotomayor received the Radcliffe Medal from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, awarded annually to "an individual who has had a transformative impact on society."
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